Couples

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I’ve been awake for hours and so I decided not to languish in bed but rather to get up and get on with some writing.  I wasn’t terribly inspired but I did get some done, which is pleasing, but as I came to a natural pause, i.e. the end of a day on the Singles’ In India tour, I thought I’d make a coffee and update the Journal.

I made the mistake of watching the Britain’s Got Talent final last night.  I only tuned in because I was certain that Jack Carroll would be the winner.  He’s such a natural … Read the rest »

Calling All Camden Residents!

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For those of you who live in Camden I have some wonderful news!

Camden Libraries are going to stock two of my books!   Sweet Lady and Singles’ Holiday.  How cool is that?  I am beyond ecstatically pleased as it’s difficult for us self-publishing authors to make headway sometimes; pleased and humbled.  Woo hoo!

That’s something good that’s happened this week.  Because if I’m honest I have not had the best week.  The sale of Mum’s flat is still no further forward.  It’s a saga of epic proportions, which is far too complicated to try to explain in this journal.  In … Read the rest »

Practising Productivity

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Today has been a very productive day.

I’ve just spent over two hours with Nick Campbell working on the script and sorting out production details for the staging of Singles’ Holiday; the first full-length production by the Actors’ Factory.

This is something new for me, as What’s Eating Me and Sweet Lady were plays that became books.  My second novel is about to become a play, doing things the other way round.  It’s all very exciting and I can’t wait for the script to be completed and the auditions to start and very satisfying, too.

I’m writing this with one … Read the rest »

I AM a Writer!

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Yesterday I opened my monthly e-mail from Amazon and screamed out loud.

In the last month the kindle sales of my books – What’s Eating Me, Singles’ Holiday and Sweet Lady – were FOUR TIMES my previous best!  I was – and still am – ecstatic.

Okay – I’ve got a long way to go before I’m in the same earning bracket as JK Rowling.  But the first step on the road and all that.  And it’s really spurred me on to get on with Singles in India (although today’s been taken up with things other than writing).

People I … Read the rest »

No News, Good News, Bad News

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Even with my self-imposed news blackout, I couldn’t avoid the shocking news of Drummer Lee Rigby’s death.  It was beyond awful, beyond sick, beyond unbelievable.  What was even more awful, sick and unbelievable was that someone actually filmed the killer, covered in Lee’s blood spouting rubbish and that all sides of the media showed it, in the case of the newspapers on the front pages and in the case of TV channels on the News, time and time again before the Watershed. 

I was also sickened by the rants on social media; the hatred and the bitterness.  Yes, what happened … Read the rest »

An Elegance of Elaines

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I found myself in a “never before” situation on Saturday when I went to the wedding of my lovely friend Michelle and her new husband Trevor.  It was a really smashing day.  Knowing it was to be held in the RC Church of St John the Evangelist in Horsham, I was a little apprehensive as previous Catholic weddings I’ve been to have all been a bit physical: “Please stand.”  “Let us kneel,”  “Please be seated,”  “Now stand for the blessing”.  You get the picture.  But there was no kneeling involved at all, although we did have to stand for rather … Read the rest »

“India” Delayed

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Work on my fourth novel, Singles In India, has suffered a bit of a set back.  This is something that happens to most writers, I imagine; you read through your work – months of slog in this case – and you realise that what is quite brilliant in your head isn’t quite working on paper.  Or on the laptop screen in my case.

It is my intention with this book to create a slightly more dysfunctional group than I di with Singles’ Holiday, and perhaps that’s at the root of it.  Dysfunctional groups – and I took many of them … Read the rest »

I know! It Was a Rant

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I know, I know!  I need to remember it’s a blog not a rant!  Yes, perhaps yesterday’s blogpost was a bit ranty, but sometimes you need a bit of a rant to get things off your chest but I’ve realised there is a world of difference between being INFORMED about what’s going on in the world and being INUNDATED, OVERWHELMED and MANIPULATED.  (It’s the manipulation I especially object to.) 

So how is my Elaine’s Life Is A News-Free Zone project going so far?

it’s going well.  Although I almost fell at the first hurdle when I got on the train … Read the rest »

The Storyline is Writ!

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The play what we wrote is on the road!  At the Actors’ Factory we’ve got the storyline laid out for our first production.  How exciting is that?   VERY!!  I LOVE the concept of forging your own future, especially in the world of theatre/film where it’s so easy to sit back and get disheartened because you aren’t being cast or things aren’t happening for you.  Sometimes it’s bull-by-the-horns time and you have to get on with it.  And that’s what we’re doing at the Actors’ Factory.  We’ve got HUGE plans and we’re starting to make them happen.  It’s a long old … Read the rest »